Run Gulp script with forever?

Question

Is it possible to run Gulp script with forever?

I have Gulp script that would like to run as a daemon, so I could start / stop / list it.

Answer 1

To give you a programatic answer:

You use the underlying forever-monitor which contains the core functionality which the forever CLI package uses.

var forever = require('forever-monitor');

gulp.task('server', function () {
    new forever.Monitor('path/to/server-script.js').start();
});

You can run multiples of such tasks, you don't need to use special daemon options since gulp tasks use orchestrator under the hood which runs tasks concurrently.

If using CMD+C in the console is not suitable to stop your tasks then you can put it into a variable:

var child = new forever.Monitor('path/to/server-script.js');
child.on('event', cb) / child.start() / child.stop()